DARTH VADER'S BIONIC SUIT
Type: Life-support suit
Manufacturer: Unknown
Owner: Darth Vader
Use: Life-support suit, protective armour
Features: Life-support systems, audio enhancement unit, temperature regulator, diagnostic dataports
Debut: A New Hope
Though he was considered one of the most powerful beings in existance during the Jedi purges and the Galactic Civil War, Darth Vader was forced to wear a protective life-support suit in order to even breathe. Just as Anakin Skywalker was trapped deep within the darkness of Vader, so too was Vader cocooned inside his grim, black armour.
Vader's suit was comprised of a jet black face-mask - which could instill fear into many of his enemies just by what it represented - a dark suit of armour and a chestplate which contained a control panel unit to regulate Vader's respirational functions. Vader also wore durasteel armour on his shoulders, upon which he draped a flowing black cape.
The Dark Lord was forced to don his bionic suit after a fierce duel with his old Master, Ben Kenobi, left him for dead in a molten pit. He survived, but only with the aid of his suit...and the dark side. The only time he could breathe freely was in a special hyperbaric chamber aboard the Executor, though when Vader found himself dying, he ordered his son to take off his menacing helmet so Anakin could finally look upon his son with his own eyes. |
